Beat the Retreat
composer: Steve Martland
for eleven players
Premiere: 3 July 1995 Cheltenham Festival · Steve Martland Band · Steve Martland, conductor
Orchestra instrumentation: 0.0.0.ssax.asax(ssax).barsax.0-0.1(pictpt).1.0-mar.drum kit.egtr.pno.bgtr-vln
Publisher: Schott Music
Duration: 13' 0''
Year of composition: 1995
Edition: performance material
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This is dancing music. The use of a ground bass suggests formal Baroque models but the shifted beats and polyrhythms also evoke Latin American, and near the end, ‘techno’ dance music.
Recordings
Steve Martland · Horses of Instruction (2001)
Steve Martland- Horses of Instruction
- Kick
- Beat the Retreat
- Mr. Anderson's Pavane
- Principia
- Thistle of Scotland
- Eternal Delight
- Re-Mix
- Terminal
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